In our technology thrust areas--the technologies NPACI develops by transferring them from their cradles in research groups to new, real-world test beds--we have already demonstrated a few hardened and user-ready metasystems, programming tools and environments, data-intensive computing environments, and interaction environments as harbingers of the future.

The tools and programming environments being developed and deployed in NPACI and in the larger community will help build complex applications systems using high-performance computing resources efficiently.

As a national laboratory for computational science and engineering, SDSC is funded by the National Science Foundation through NPACI and other federal agencies, the State and University of California, and private organizations.

The Grid, prototyped by the Alliance, along with similar efforts by NPACI, will serve as an early model for a full-scale advanced computational infrastructure, which will be built jointly by computer, communications, and software vendors to support U.

Breakthrough discoveries in fields from genomics to astronomy depend critically on computational and data-management infrastructure," said Fran Berman, director of NPACI and SDSC and a principal investigator of the TeraGrid award.

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